Quotes About Intelligence

They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.

Nerd girls are the world's most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.

The venn diagram of boys who don't like smart girls and boys you don't wanna date is a circle.

I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?

Tunny should still have been unbreakable, but like Enigma it was made vulnerable by the carelessness of its operators and the bureaucratic nature of their system.

books on Strategies of Genius.

Never argue with an idiot, because they will only bring you down to their level and beat you by experience.

I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

Good to be merry and wise.

He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths.

Then go faster. But don't go stupid.

The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.

la plus belle des savants, la plus savante des belles

American intelligence officers, somewhat better informed than the Duce, understood that for the projected invasion to be successful it was vitally important to have the Mafia firmly on the Allied side.

una locura con un inconfundible toque de inteligencia, porque provocará que me sume a ella.»

Locura -pensó-. Pero una locura con un inconfundible toque de inteligencia, porque provocará que me sume a ella".

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

First we had the legs race. Then we had the arms race. Now we're going to have the brain race. And, if we're lucky, the final stage will be the human race.

SHALMANESER That real cool piece of hardware up at the GT tower. They say he's apt to evolve to true consciousness one day. Also they say he's as intelligent as a thousand of us put together, which isn't really saying much, because when you put a thousand of us together look how stupidly we behave.

I myself have always disliked being called a "genius." It is fascinating to notice how quick people have been to intuit this aversion and avoid using the term.